Euromillions €210 million

Signore Fancy Pants · 22-02-2021 4:33pm

There have been 18 Euromillions jackpot winners in Ireland.

Couldn't give a fiddlers about the odds, I have the same odds that those 18 people had...thats good enough for me.

That said, I did get 5 out of the 7 numbers a few weeks ago and only got €60.

Will report back tomorrow when I win the 210 million.

yerwanthere123 · 22-02-2021 4:40pm

I've often fastasised about winning it, but I think it'd almost be just as much a curse as it is a blessing. I'm in my late 20's and unmarried, how would I ever be able to get into a relationship with anyone without worrying about their true intentions? I reckon it'd make a lot of people a paranoid wreck. Having said that, I'll still probably buy a ticket for tomorrow's draw and be instantly disappointed when I don't win :pac:

Mike Murdock · 22-02-2021 5:09pm

Resign by text message and straight into early retirement.

Roadtoad · 22-02-2021 5:20pm

I'd give everyone who contributed to this thread (that's 53, no more claim jumpers!) a million each, and keep the small change.

DessieJames · 22-02-2021 5:23pm

Out of this poxy country in a flash, private jet to some sun kissed island and stay there for the forseeable,buy a huge villa in advance.

i would live a life of luxury and fly around the world in a private jet when this madness ends.

i would give money to not for profit charities,

KungPao · 22-02-2021 5:31pm

Give the wife half as a severance package, then make it well known I’m rich and wait for all the ladies.

Harry Palmr · 22-02-2021 5:37pm

I reckon 10m for me and a few others, some local good deed organisations and then 200m on capital spending over say a decade to boost local academia. I'd invest in Waterford campus of the dreaded TUSE. It's going to be badly funded and not even a proper university so I'd add funding on top of whatever it gets from the state to create higher potential esp for the spin off tech sector which is becoming a bit of a success here. No one in Dublin Cork, Limerick or Galway would even need to have this idea but down here it would actually be required.

22-02-2021 5:49pm

If I won the full amount, I'd probably build a nice house somewhere in Ireland, on the east, near the coast,possible. Then a holiday home.

Then I'd buy my dream car to enjoy, along with a more practical, mundane 'everyday' car.

Give people close to me some dosh. Make sure anyone that's been decent to me in my life was a lot wealthier. Wouldn't entertain giving a penny to the kind of people I haven't heard from in years and who only get in touch looking for things.

bigtimecharlie · 22-02-2021 5:54pm

10 million is enough for anyone let alone give then 200 million more.

Pure madness when you consider 5 numbers and 1 lucky star may only get you 200k!

murpho999 · 22-02-2021 6:08pm

Harry Palmr wrote: »

I reckon 10m for me and a few others, some local good deed organisations and then 200m on capital spending over say a decade to boost local academia. I'd invest in Waterford campus of the dreaded TUSE. It's going to be badly funded and not even a proper university so I'd add funding on top of whatever it gets from the state to create higher potential esp for the spin off tech sector which is becoming a bit of a success here. No one in Dublin Cork, Limerick or Galway would even need to have this idea but down here it would actually be required.

Thought you'd sign Mbappe for Liverpool Harry!:D

Dr. Bre · 22-02-2021 6:09pm

murpho999 wrote: »

You really think you're going to win €210m and your kids won't notice all the extra things?

Unless you plan not to spend money then what's the point in doing it. Never get that.

You won't win anyway so nothing to worry about.

So your saying there is a chance ..

22-02-2021 6:15pm

bigtimecharlie wrote: »

10 million is enough for anyone let alone give then 200 million more.

Pure madness when you consider 5 numbers and 1 lucky star may only get you 200k!

I disagree with your first line - let the winner have the full amount. No harm in it.

The second line is dead right though. It seems all the other prizes, all nearly impossible to win, too, are a pittance compared to the main prize. Was there not a thing they did before where when the main prize went over X amount, if it wasn't won, the following week whatever should have been added to it got spread out amongst the other prizes instead? something along those lines? (think its a Lottery procedure rather than a Euromillions one, though?).

positron · 22-02-2021 6:20pm

It's a dangerous situations tbh - if the news leaks, you could be in for pain for bother, money usually attracts the wrong kind of people.

My dream would be to set up a trust to support the education for all own kids and all kids / young people in the family and their kids etc for generations to come. There will be rules. They will have to work hard to withdraw from this trust fund, prove that they deserve it - but they will never be denied an opportunity to move ahead in life because they couldn't afford it.

They will also have to become part of the board, perhaps contribute into and carry the mission forward for future generations.

Fuascailteoir · 22-02-2021 6:27pm

Drugs, women and gambling

nullzero · 22-02-2021 6:34pm

Enjoy life instead of suffering through it.

Richard Hillman · 22-02-2021 6:37pm

I would "Get a job abroad, as a personal assistant to a very wealthy businessman". Ain't nobody needs to know my financials.

I'm not close to family, so **** them. Friends on the other hand would probably be employed by this very wealthy businessman abroad.

AllForIt · 22-02-2021 7:43pm

I would disappear for a year to somewhere calm and peaceful and think about what I was going to do with it. There would be no rush to give a penny of it away straight away.

I certainly wouldn't give my family so much of it they could retire or anything like that. That would be a hefty amount anyway as I have a lot of siblings. I could see myself telling them many months after the win I was in Australia and that my solicitor would be in touch to get their bank details. Maybe 1 Mil each, something like that. A somewhat derisory sum in comparison to the jackpot but significant for them all the same. And they can't say I didn't give them anything.

My friends live where I once used to live abroad, I could rejoin them, let them know of my luck, and my local community here would be none the wiser. So I wouldn't have to keep it a secret entirely. Oh I have friends here to but they are more like good acquaintance. It could be months before they'd notice I'd disappeared and thoughts of who the mystery winner is would be long gone.

Now I really enjoyed that little fantasy, I must go and pay for it now by doing the lottery. €2.50 should do it.

startrek56 · 22-02-2021 7:54pm

i always wondered if you won 200m or something, how to you go about buying expensive things? for example a 100k watch, or a 1m supercar, you hardly enter your bank card and enter a pin number?

also, how much money would you be allowed to have sitting in a current account? i mean i doubt if you withdrew 100 and got a balance slip it would say 199,999,900 on it

Gruffalux · 22-02-2021 8:10pm

I would give 10 million each to direct relatives because I like them all a lot. Between children, siblings, parent, parents in law and siblings in law that would take care of 150 million.

It would have to be anonymous somehow. They would probably lose half to tax but the 5 million left each should give them a nice time.

Then I would buy a lovely little secluded farmhouse on Gozo and live there, running an investment charity which would give anonymous start up, no strings attached grants to as many as possible family and sole trader businesses in very remote places. I would take a few trips around the place every year looking for good opportunities to give out the investments. Not on the spot - not a lady bountiful type trip, but anonymously later on. It would be great if subsistence villages could afford to have all the children who wanted go to school and not keep them home for the labour. Especially girls. If you gave out 1 million a year that way you would have years of occupation. You could give 1000 start ups 1000 quid to get going every year. It would be big money in many areas.
I think I could manage all that, keep cool, and not lose the head. There is not much I want right now in terms of stuff - I don't really do ''stuff''. It mostly takes up space and gets annoying and has to be dusted.

Ubbquittious · 22-02-2021 10:39pm

I'd quietly slip away to some place remote.

Will come back after a few years to do an AMA thread, then fcuk off again. For that reason I'd say a lot of people would be delighted if I won it

Ubbquittious · 22-02-2021 10:41pm

startrek56 wrote: »

i always wondered if you won 200m or something, how to you go about buying expensive things? for example a 100k watch, or a 1m supercar, you hardly enter your bank card and enter a pin number?

also, how much money would you be allowed to have sitting in a current account? i mean i doubt if you withdrew 100 and got a balance slip it would say 199,999,900 on it

Simple. You have a man on horseback ride up to deliver the gold.

What I wonder is after my winnings are transferred into my credit union account will there be a big gap in the street and smouldering crater where the credit union used to be

22-02-2021 10:42pm

Playstation 5 and two decent graphics cards

Buddy Bubs · 22-02-2021 10:46pm

The expensive diesel and the top of the range car wash

BorneTobyWilde · 22-02-2021 10:54pm

I'd buy 220 worth of bitcoin .

dxhound2005 · 22-02-2021 10:56pm

Deleted User wrote: »

I disagree with your first line - let the winner have the full amount. No harm in it.

The second line is dead right though. It seems all the other prizes, all nearly impossible to win, too, are a pittance compared to the main prize. Was there not a thing they did before where when the main prize went over X amount, if it wasn't won, the following week whatever should have been added to it got spread out amongst the other prizes instead? something along those lines? (think its a Lottery procedure rather than a Euromillions one, though?).

Look at the Euromillions results for Tuesday 08 December 2020.

NIMAN · 22-02-2021 10:59pm

I'd give ye all a grand each.

circadian · 22-02-2021 11:05pm

NIMAN wrote: »

I'd give ye all a grand each.

Sterling or yoyos? Maybe a McGonigles diesel card for the amount would suit me better.

Good man yer da.

Strumms · 22-02-2021 11:10pm

positron wrote: »

It's a dangerous situations tbh - if the news leaks, you could be in for pain for bother, money usually attracts the wrong kind of people.

My dream would be to set up a trust to support the education for all own kids and all kids / young people in the family and their kids etc for generations to come. There will be rules. They will have to work hard to withdraw from this trust fund, prove that they deserve it - but they will never be denied an opportunity to move ahead in life because they couldn't afford it.

They will also have to become part of the board, perhaps contribute into and carry the mission forward for future generations.

Yeah, you’d need to be prudent...

I’d be on the level with family..and BEST friends... although I wouldn’t be admitting the actual amount outside my parents and other half ... get asked......“ hey, I did ok, I’m comfortable now... “

Anybody else... new house... “just fancied a move”... new Ferrari, Mercedes AMG ? “Ok, just had an investment pay off and treated myself, no point in looking at the cash just sitting in an account”... not a lie, you invested in a euromillions ticket...

I’ve an aunt who is an employee of a very worthwhile charity who do brilliant work with the homeless in Dublin....I’d have no issues writing a BIG one off cheque for them...but knowing her as I do... it would be 200,000 say then a year later “ ohhh they are getting the offices done up, then the following year... ohh they need a fleet of new delivery vehicles... ohhh erm...can you help... she is a seriously benevolent individual but is sometimes of the view that everyone should follow suit... I’d want to be enjoying life, it would become a drag if your email and phone was going off from friends, family, and indeed strangers every couple of days, “ would you mind checking your email and seeing if.., “ be a melt, you gotta enjoy life..

celt262 · 22-02-2021 11:11pm

yerwanthere123 wrote: »

I've often fastasised about winning it, but I think it'd almost be just as much a curse as it is a blessing. I'm in my late 20's and unmarried, how would I ever be able to get into a relationship with anyone without worrying about their true intentions? I reckon it'd make a lot of people a paranoid wreck. Having said that, I'll still probably buy a ticket for tomorrow's draw and be instantly disappointed when I don't win :pac:

Feck off to LA and hook up with some rich young one.

Beechwoodspark · 22-02-2021 11:14pm

Book out a pub for a wkend and invite a very select small circle of friends and family - free bar all wkend

Organise with the pub to have a full Irish buffet every morning up til about 2 pm then later on baskets of sausages and chips and sandwiches for every one, free of charge

KaneToad · 22-02-2021 11:16pm

Mike Murdock wrote: »

Resign by text message and straight into early retirement.

I wouldn't resign. I'd just never turn up for work again and ignore all correspondence from them.

KaneToad · 22-02-2021 11:19pm

Fuascailteoir wrote: »

Drugs, women and gambling

And then squander the rest?

Capt'n Midnight · 22-02-2021 11:27pm

seamie78 wrote: »

and the other half on black

There is now triple zero roulette in Vegas

So one in thirteen chance of losing everything. Because pure and simple greed.

DJIMI TRARORE · 22-02-2021 11:27pm

I'd employ someone on a full-time basis to keep the town clean and tidy, buy the community council a small sit on road sweeping truck, buy a 20acre site and put in a state of the art sports centre, on the condition that all organisations are equal and build an 18 hole golf corse

lucalux · 22-02-2021 11:38pm

Nobody would find out to be honest. I'd disappear, I've done it before.
Tell my Mam and Dad I won a bit.

I'd rent a modest house somewhere nice in Ireland to start with, set up some shell companies, and offshore accounts, all on the level, with a very shrewd tax avoidant lawyer. Then buy a home.

I'd gift my mam some, my dad too, but BIK kind of ways. Pay off their mortgage. Sort out anything my Mam wants. Buy my dad a place where he's always wanted to live. Maintaining ownership of same, but letting him take it on as a time share kind of arrangement.

I'd buy land in Ireland, and lots of it. Get a herd number.
Start a few companies. Donate to causes I genuinely think would make a difference.

Be an anonymous angel investor.

Live the high life - growing veg and flowers, learning languages, raising animals, enjoying nature.
Upgrade my vehicular transportation, a 4x4 for the mountains and inclement weather, a comfortable cruiser for long distance trips in Ireland, some retro beauties, just because. Possibly some helicopter trips and such (my eyesight prevents me ever being a pilot).

A place somewhere 420 friendly, leaning towards somewhere modest in Colorado or Oregon. Netherlands, Portugal also in the running.

Every bit of sound technology I could muster. Rooms of full and accurate hi-fidelity sounds.

No neighbours to annoy (hence the land grabbing). I'd live in bliss and nature and music.

I'd angel invest in companies on the up, the CBD and hemp/cannabis industries mainly, and rest on my lazy laurels till my money made bank, interest wise.

Capt'n Midnight · 22-02-2021 11:38pm

KaneToad wrote: »

I wouldn't resign. I'd just never turn up for work again and ignore all correspondence from them.

Or get a doctors cert for anal glaucoma.

Or as one engineer did when they expected him to work out his notice,
show up, shoes off, feet on desk, start reading newspaper.

FR85 · 23-02-2021 12:31am

I always said I'd jump on the poshest cruise ship and disappear for a year, see the world then return when the dust has settled. Round the world, 5 star jobby where theres already millions on board so no questions to be answered. Needless to say that's all gone to the wall in the current climate.

The thoughts of my nearest and dearest paying millions to the Irish government to squander sickens me to the core so I'd have to look at that one closely by paying off mortgages, clearing debts, buying them cars, holidays with expense accounts ect and that way anything they earn themselves is their own.

Animal welfare and charities would be a big one for me.

It's a difficult one to imagine, I would say you would be constantly looking over your shoulder and hoors you havn't heard from in ages would be swinging out of yeh. You would need to keep it quiet but that in today's day and age is impossible.

Harry Palmr · 23-02-2021 12:33am

Imagine if you'd won this a year ago then! You'd have hit the high seas at just the wrong moment.

Timing is everything.

Man Vs ManUre · 23-02-2021 12:35am

I’d buy a pair of yeezys.

FR85 · 23-02-2021 12:41am

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Imagine if you'd won this a year ago then! You'd have hit the high seas at just the wrong moment.

Timing is everything.

Oh hey, you are dead right on the timing, I'd back to where I'd started. Imagine being in lockdown with 200million in the bank, doing nothing except pissing off the Amazon delivery driver!
Couldn't even build the house of your dreams at the minute.

You would have to jump on a private jet and lock yourself away somewhere and that is not a life.

Ubbquittious · 23-02-2021 12:47am

FR85 wrote: »

Oh hey, you are dead right on the timing, I'd back to where I'd started. Imagine being in lockdown with 200million in the bank, doing nothing except pissing off the Amazon delivery driver!
Couldn't even build the house of your dreams at the minute.

You would have to jump on a private jet and lock yourself away somewhere and that is not a life.

Super yacht

Yurt2 · 23-02-2021 12:57am

I'd buy a big f*ck-off ranch in America like the one in Wild Wild Country, except without the cult aspects and red clothes. I'd keep many attractive women around for sexy times though.

I'd also embark on a low-level revenge campaign for people that have annoyed me in the past. For example, I had really crap boss years back who only got his job through pull and would bully staff. He used to constantly moan about travellers. I'd buy houses either side of him and give the keys to a family of travellers. When he'd sell up and move on, I'd keep on doing the same until he'd go demented and buy a caravan to hit the road.

Capt'n Midnight · 23-02-2021 12:57am

Ubbquittious wrote: »

Super yacht

Nah.

Get a second hand oil rig support vessel.

Up front can take any weather.

Big flat deck out back, stick anything you want there.

FR85 · 23-02-2021 12:59am

Ubbquittious wrote: »

Super yacht

Good plan batman, if yeh know anything about yachts or the sea you have the job as a thank you!!! ðŸ˜‚

23-02-2021 1:05am

That’s huge money. Most people are treating it like the Irish lottery. Buy a big house in Ireland? You could buy a few dozen.

I kinda like the idea of an American ranch though, although I’d have no idea what to do.

The only work I’d go is with some investment company, maybe in IT. 2-3 days a week max.

Yurt2 · 23-02-2021 1:06am

Deleted User wrote: »

That’s huge money. Most people are treating it like the Irish lottery. Buy a big house in Ireland? You could buy a few dozen.

I kinda like the idea of an American ranch though, although I’d have no idea what to do.

The only work I’d go is with some investment company, maybe in IT. 2-3 days a week max.

Many women. Sexy times.

ToxicPaddy · 23-02-2021 1:08am

Ohhh I've a few ideas.

I wouldn't confirm exactly how much I won, do something like someone posted earlier, wait for a decent lottery size to be won in Dublin and say it was me, maybe a couple of million to take the spotlight off me.

Definitely help the family, pay off mortgages any house renovations they want paid for, new cars etc and a college fun for every niece and nephew.

A lump sum for each of my parents but also couple of credit cards with stupidly high limits that they buy everything they will ever need with and I'll cover that for then for life so they can holiday, travel, treat themselves to whatever they like whenever they like.

I'd love to buy a nice big luxury sailing yacht, a decent size one with 2-3 well paid crew and just sail away to various spots around the world spending anything from a week to a month in interesting places learning about new cultures etc. Probably drop a few million just for the yacht but still leaves a decent chunk to "survive" on. However if anyone ever asked, I'd tell them I took a job on one as I was bored with the 9-5 lifestyle

Always wanted to learn how to fly, so that would be another nice hobby, not a jet but a nice twin engine prop that again I could use for short hops around Europe. Again hidden away with very few people knowing about it. Certainly wouldn't be advertising the fact that I have it.

Honestly all of that would probably be an absolute max of 10-15 million.

After that I'd focus on those around me who are less fortunate.

Definitely help local clubs in the area, charities and the like, especially children's charities. Some kids out there face an uphill battle before they are even out of nappies, anything to give them a shot at a decent life is worth whatever it takes in my mind.

After that who knows, maybe hire a team of people to search out those in need in the local community and anonymously help them out, clear debts, a fund for things like school books and uniforms, help small businesses suffering in the current climate, college scholarship funds for kids whose families can't afford to send them to college etc.

Help to fund those make a wish activities for terminally ill children, give them something and their families to look forward to.

I wouldn't be too interested in rubbing people's noses in it, the yacht, plane etc would be hidden away from sight of anyone I know.

All pipe dreams but nice pipe dreams

1800_Ladladlad · 23-02-2021 2:18am

As mentioned before I would keep it quiet and announce my winnings when another jackpot is announced anonymously. €210 million is way too much money for a person who has never known wealth to have. I'd look after my family of course but Id like to think I would do something meaningful and use the money to help sick kids around Ireland and purchase property within the vicinity of the hospital, specifically accommodate the parents of sick children so they're close.

As we've seen with Steve Jobs. Wealth doesn't buy health

23-02-2021 4:45am

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Book out a pub for a wkend and invite a very select small circle of friends and family - free bar all wkend

Organise with the pub to have a full Irish buffet every morning up til about 2 pm then later on baskets of sausages and chips and sandwiches for every one, free of charge

Baskets of sausages. I don't think you'd make it out alive.

Grant Stevens · 23-02-2021 4:58am

startrek56 wrote: »

also, i would never spend another winter in a cold wet miserable country ever again, Caribbean for me from october-april

You'd be home for Christmas, guaranteed ðŸŽ„ðŸ˜‰ðŸ˜

Euromillions €210 million

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